Amy's next business venture is going to be bottling and selling that travel glow.

Amy Bukovich is not what comes to mind when you picture an accountant (recent Ben Affleck films aside). Loquacious and laid-back with a bone-dry sense of humor, Amy is much more the embodiment of her so-called “first career” as a college softball player. Her path has taken turns through a pre-med major, her first job at a company run by an Orthodox Jewish family, and a move that unexpectedly landed her a remote job as the CFO at Search Wizards. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

When you were 17, what did you want to be?

At 17, I had actually been working in a doctor’s office. I was on the pre-med track, so I was getting to work in a pediatric/plastic surgeon’s office, a husband/wife duo. I’d go and sit in the consultation rooms for pediatrics, I sat in consultations for plastic surgery. I didn’t want to be either of those, but it kind of gives you what to expect a little bit.

What is the When I Was 17 Project?

When I Was 17 is a blog series dedicated to collecting the varied stories of people's career paths, what they envisioned themselves doing when they were teenagers and how that evolved over the course of their lives. I started this project with the goal of illustrating that it's okay not to know exactly what you want to do when you're 17; many successful people didn't, and these are a few of their stories.